Tokyo  Union  Christian  College  Girls  at  Gym  Work 


Four  Hundred  Million  Women  in  Asia 
Appealto  the  Men  and  Women  of  America 
for  Relief  from  Physical  Suffering 

caused  by  ignorance  of  physical  laws,  utter  lack  of  sanitation,  impure  living, 
incredibly  early  marriage  and  motherhood,  cruel  superstitions  which  make 
child  birth  a frightful  tragedy,  lack  of  knowledge  regarding  the  care  of 
children  leading  to  barbarous  treatment  and  intense  and  needless  suffering 
and  absence  of  medical  aid. 

THESE  WOMEN  PLEAD  FOR  EDUCATION 
to  open  the  doors  of  their  minds.  Only  one  in  one  hundred  of  the  women  of 
India  can  read.  Only  one  in  one  thousand  of  China,  the  great  literary 
nation,  know  their  letters.  These  women  have  minds  notwithstanding  the 
teaching  of  their  religions  which  deny  to  women  minds  and  souls  They 
have  proved  that  they  can  learn  and  can  teach,  and  now  they  plead  for  the 
opportunity  to  prepare  themselves  to  serve  their  people. 

WOMEN  HAVE  A RIGHT 

to  the  knowledge  of  the  spiritual  truth  which  has  brought  to  us  Christian 
women  development  in  righteousness,  freedom  of  faith,  a personal  knowl- 
edge of  God  through  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  blessed  hope  of  immortality. 

The  women  of  the  East  are  turning  away  from  the  teachings  which  have 
kept  them  enslaved.  Where  shall  they  go  for  light  and  leading? 

CAN  THEY  BE  RESCUED  FROM  BONDAGE? 

Sixty  years  ago  a group  of  Christian  women  organized  the  Woman’s 
Union  Missionary  Society,  whose  objective  was  to  carry  a message  of 
eternal  hope  to  the  women  of  Asia.  Ten  years  later  in  the  great  denom- 
inations similar  societies  were  organized.  The  results  of  these  small  begin- 
nings are  almost  beyond  belief.  These  societies  have  grown  until  they 
number  millions  of  interested  women  in  this  country.  They  have  estab- 
lished thousands  of  schools  from  primary  grade  up  to  high  school  through 
the  missionary  teachers  whom  they  have  sent.  They  have  given  the  Bible, 


the  great  emancipator,  with  Christian  literature  to  millions  of  women  and 
girls  who  have  learned  to  read.  They  have  established  hospitals  and  trained 
nurses  and  built  wayside  dispensaries.  They  have  secured  some  reforms 
and  are  still  working.  They  have  put  the  leaven  of  the  Gospel  into  the  great 
inert  mass,  and  the  lump  is  being  leavened. 


NEW  LEVELS 


The  work  is  not  yet  done.  There  have  been  few  to  go  and  those  few  are 
foreigners — British  and  American  women.  They  are  willing  to  lay  down 
their  lives  and  are  faithful  unto  death;  but  are  unable  to  do  more  than  light 


a blaze  here  and 
a marvelous  oppor- 
tal  women  who  have 
ready  today  to  carry 
deep  darkness  where 
these  millions  of 
saying,  “Teach  us! 
Thousands  of  us  are 
take  the  training;  and 
own  people  what  only 
gress  will  be  rapid  if 


there.  Now  we  see 
tunity.  These  Orien- 
seen  the  light  are 
on  the  torch  to  the 
still  live  and  suffer 
women.  They  are 
Fit  us  to  do  the  work! 
ready  and  eager  to 
we  will  do  for  our 
we  can  do.”  The  pro- 
we  do  this. 


THE  WORLD  WAR 
awakening,  but  quick- 
s tilled  the  desire, 
two  or  three  small 
education  before  1914, 
At  its  close  we  find 
Union  Christian  Col- 
the  great  capitals  of 
these  are  medical 
Oriental  women  as 


broke  in  on  this 
ened  rather  than 
There  were  only 
attempts  at  higher 
when  the  war  began, 
ourselves  with  seven 
leges  for  Women  in 
the  East.  Two  of 
schools  for  training 
physicians. 


THE  GREAT  AWAKENING 

In  this  year  of  our  Lord  we  shall  see  as  we  glance  across  to  the  three 
great  countries  of  Asia, — India,  China  and  Japan — these  seven  union  insti- 
tutions for  women  maintained  by  ten  denominational  boards  in  this  coun- 
try; in  one  case,  Madras,  affiliated  with  similar  boards  in  Great  Britain  The 
aim  of  these  schools  is  to  prepare  the  future  Christian  leaders  of  the  East. 
They  are  needed  in  education,  medicine,  social  reforms,  literature,  and  in 
church  and  home  life.  Shall  we  fulfill  the  hope  of  those  pioneers,  our 
mothers  and  grandmothers,  who  began  the  work;  or  shall  it  be  hindered 
by  our  indifference,  lack  of  knowledge,  inaction,  inefficiency? 


“THE  WORLD  WAS  MADE  FOR  WOMEN,  TOO” 
is  the  motto  above  the  door  of  the  first  Woman’s  Club  in  India.  Among 
religious  leaders  the  Founder  of  Christianity  alone  recognized  woman;  but 
here  are  we  nineteen  centuries  after  His  coming,  fifty  millions  of  us,  in  the 
main  safe,  comfortable  and  well  cared  for,  while  the  great  multitude  of  other 
women  beat  with  helpless  hands  against  our  closed  doors  and  beg  that  we 
will  free  them.  Here  is  our  opportunity  for  Internationalism. 


SELF-DETERMINATION 

has  come  to  the  women  of  the  East.  Will  the  women  of  the  West  stop 
their  work  and  games  and  enjoyment  for  a moment  and  consider  the  needs 
of  these  women  and  help  them  tc  come  to  their  own  aid?  We  are  interested 
in  Internationalism,  in  Disarmament,  in  the  great  new  world  movements; 
but  remember,  great  republics  and  free  nations  can  not  be  built  on  an 
illiterate,  despised,  degraded  womanhood. 


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WHAT  CAN  YOU  DO? 

Help  these  seven  colleges  to  get  their  first  groups  of  buildings.  Here 
they  stand,  overcrowded,  turning  away  by  hundreds  the  students  who  eager- 
ly seek  training.  There  is  no  room  for  those  who  night  save  the  women  of 
the  world.  We  began  last  year;  but  with  famine  in  Europe  and  China  it 
was  hard  to  make  an  appeal.  It  will  be  necessary  to  secure  three  million 
dollars  for  the  purchase  of  land  and  buildings  for  these  seven  institutions, 
two  of  them  medical  schools.  Of  this  the  Laura  Spelman  Rockefeller 
Memorial  Fund  will  give  one-third  on  condition  that  we  secure  the  remain- 
der, two  million  dollars,  before  January,  1923.  Through  last  year’s  Inter 
national  Christmas  Gift  and  the  help  of  the  boards,  we  sent  five  hundrea 
thousand  dollars,  and  have  received  the  first  check  for  two  hundred  fifty 
thousand  dollars  from  the  Memorial  fund.  It  is  now  imperative  that  we 
secure  in  pledges  the  balance  if  we  are  to  receive  the  seven  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  which  the  Fund  has  promised  conditionally. 

THE  SUNNY  SIDE  OF  THE  WORLD 

What  can  we  do  here  in  the  sunshine  for  those  over  there  in  deepest 
shadow?  On  an  old  sun  dial  under  the  window  is  the  legend,  “I  count  the 
bright  hours  only.” 

Will  you  translate  some  of  your  bright  hours,  some  of  the  blessings  of 
wealth,  health,  education,  joys  of  travel,  books,  home,  friends,  into  the  lives 
of  these  women?  The  pledge  and  nrayer  will  tell  you  how.  If  you  can  help, 
even  if  you  have  helped  before,  will  you  sign  the  promise  of  service  at  the 
close  of  this  leaflet,  and  send  to  the  office  in  Boston?  There  will  be  an  effort 
throughout  the  country  to  secure  gifts  from  men  and  women  interested  in 
education,  medical  care,  social  reform,  internationalism  and  Christian 
service.  We  cannot  afford  an  expensive  organization,  and  must  depend 
upon  voluntary  service  which  interested  women  will  render.  Information 
and  supplies  of  literature  will  be  furnished  to  all  who  ask.  Many  states  and 
cities  are  being  organized  and  definite  information  will  be  given  to  those 
who  wish  to  ally  themselves  with  their  own  state  organizations  and  plans. 
The  special  effort  will  be  made  this  fall  and  winter,  and  further  details  will 
be  given  on  request. 

We  beg  that  you  will  pray  for  this  movement,  and  for  those  who  have 
waited  so  long  for  our  aid;  but  remember,  prayer  without  effort  is  ineffec- 
tual. Do  not  ask  God  to  do  the  thing  He  asks  you  to  do,  and  has  enabled 
you  to  do.  Ask  Him,  rather,  to  give  you  a heart  of  love  with  strength  and 
courage  to  do  what  you  can.  It  may  be  easy  for  you  to  give  a certain 
amount  or  you  may  give  a very  little  with  great  sacrifice.  Multiply  your 
gift,  large  or  small  by  securing  pledges  from  friends  and  acquaintances.  It 
is  not  an  easy  time  tc  give  or  get  money,  but  it  is  true,  “He  that  observeth 
the  winds  shall  not  sow,  and  ho  that  regardeth  the  clouds  shall  not  reap,” 
and  with  the  knowledge  that  there  arc  those  who  have  thrown  in  their 
lives  and  are  waiting  and  watching  for  your  reply,  sign  this  promise  of 
service. 


We  have  had  many  dark  hours 


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WOMAN’S  CHRISTIAN  COLLEGE  AT  TOKYO,  JAPAN 

In  the  Woman’s  Christian  College  in  Tokyo,  is  an  opportunity  we  cannot  afford  to  over- 
look. There  is  no  more  important  field  for  such  work.  We  are  looking  constantly  for 
leaders  in  our  Missionary  work;  we  need  women  who  can  assume  responsibility,  as 
principals  in  our  girls’  schools,  teachers  on  the  faculties  of  our  high  schools,  super- 
intendents of  our  Bible  Training  Schools  and  women  who  can  qualify  as  doctors.  We 
can  never  evangelize  the  East  with  a body  of  American  women.  Only  as  we  educate 
thoroughly  the  girls  of  these  countries  and  place  upon  them  the  evangelization  of 
their  own  nation  can  we  hope  for  the  leadership  which  will  insure  success.  We  have  been 
laying  foundations  for  nearly  fifty  years;  NOW  if  we  fail  to  take  the  further  step  in  the 
higher  education  of  our  women  we  shall  lose  that  great  opportunity  before  us,  of  giving 
woman  her  place  of  power  and  influence  in  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

In  April,  1918,  this  college  was  opened  with  an  enrollment  of  eighty-four  from  seventeen 
mission  and  many  government  schools.  The  President,  Dr.  Nitobe,  and  the  dean,  Miss 
Yasui,  are  Japanese.  Four  four-year  courses — Liberal  Arts,  Japanese  Language  and  Litera- 
ture— English  Language  and  Literature,— and  Business — are  offered.  It  is  supported  by  five 
co-operating  Boards. 


Breakfast  of  millet  porridge  at  the  Yenching  Famine  Refuge  at  Wang  Tu,  this  being 
the  first  known  instance  of  such  practical  social  service  managed  and  supported 
wholly  by  Chinese  women 


YENCHING  COLLEGE,  PEKING,  CHINA 

This  Union  College  was  founded  in  Peking  in  1905  and  is  supported  by  four  Women’s 
Boards.  The  number  of  students  in  1920  was  120.  The  number  ot  students  for  1919  was 
sixty-one.  Miss  Luella  Miner  is  the  president.  The  medium  of  instruction  for 
most  of  the  courses  is  in  Northern  Mandarin,  fitting  all  but  a few  to  take  directly  to  their 
home  communities  the  fruits  of  their  study  without  transmission  into  anotn.r  tongue.  The 
influence  of  the  student  body  is  warmly  Christian.  Students  are  expected  to  attend  daily 
chapel  prayers  and  regular  Sunday  morning  service  at  their  own  denominational  chutch 
or  at  the  nearby  Congregational  Church.  Special  and  weekly  class  prayer  meetings  are 
held.  Of  those  who  have  been  graduated  one  is  a leading  angelist,  two  are  studying  in 
America,  two  are  leading  Y.  W.  C.  A.  secretaries,  others  are  teaching  in  various  Mission 
schools,  and  a number  are  wives  ot  educated  men.  Thus  an  ever  increasing  body  of  alumnae 
is  fulfilling  the  aim  of  the  college  to  produce  educated  Christian  leaders  for  China’s, 
womanhood. 


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GINLING  COLLEGE, 
NANKING,  CHINA 

Ginling  College  Is  located  In  the 
old  city  Nanking,  the  former  seat  of 
Chinese  learning.  There  Chinese 
girls  may  study  in  their  own  language 
and  are  not  removed  from  the  simple 
life  and  the  relations  with  their  own 
people.  They  do  not  have  to  meet 
the  temptations  to  which  an  Oriental 
girl  is  subjected  in  the  unusual  free- 
dom of  American  Colleges.  As  sep- 
arate Boards  we  could  not  possibly 
maintain  a college  for  our  own  girls 
since  we  could  not  provide  the  stu- 
dent body,  the  faculty  or  the  funds. 
We  are  indeed  grateful  that  the  spirit 
of  Christian  unity  prevails  to  such 
an  extent  on  the  Mission  Fields 
abroad  that  it  is  possible  for  many 
Boards  to  unite  with  one  great  aim 
in  the  higher  Christian  education  for 
women.  IF  we  lead  these  girls  into 
the  broader  freedom  through  Chris- 
tianity we  MUST  give  them  shelter- 
ing care  and  the  strong  helps  of 
Christian  training  and  example,  that 
in  the  days  to  come  they  may  form 
the  foundation  of  the  new  Christian 
education  of  the  Orient. 

This  College  was  founded  in  1915. 
Its  fourth  year  opened  with  an  en- 
rollment of  fifty-three  students,  rep- 
resenting nine  provinces,  twenty- 
eight  cities  and  eleven  denomina- 
tions. The  curriculum,  while  provid- 
ing thorough  scholastic  training, 
aims  first  of  all  to  meet  the  needs  of 
new  China.  There  is  self-government 
and  the  students  have,  on  their  own 
initiative,  opened  a school  for  poor 
children  which  they  themselves  fi- 
nance and  administer.  The  college  is 
supported  by  five  Woman’s  Boards. 
The  President  is  Mrs.  Lawrence 
Thurston. 


‘He  has  no  hands  but  our  hands 
To  do  His  work  today.” 

I will  endeavor  to  secure  gifts  and  pledges  for  Union  Colleges  and  Medical 
Schools  for  the  Women  of  the  Orient  in  my  own  church  and  community, 
and  will  seek  to  interest  others  to  do  the  same. 

Name 

Address 

Local  Church  Denomination  

On  receipt  of  this  signed  request,  we  will  send  you  copies  of  the  necessary 
literature  and  pledges,  and  will  direct  you  to  your  state  leaders. 

Address,  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody,  300  Ford  Building,  Boston,  9,  Mass. 

Send  pledges  of  money  or  checks  to  Miss  Hilda  Olson,  Assistant  Treas- 
urer, 300  Ford  Building,  Boston,  Mass.,  or  to  your  Woman’s  Board  oi 
Missions. 


Looking  Through  One  of  the  Many  Moon  Gates 
at  Ginling 


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WOMAN’S  CHRISTIAN  COLLEGE,  MADRAS,  INDIA 

It  is  due  to  the  persistent  devoted  efforts  of  British  and  American  women  that  even  one 
per  cent  of  India’s  170,000,000  women  can  read.  We  readily  understand  therefore  the  need 
of  competent  women  as  teachers  to  lift  the  girls  of  the  coming  generation  out  of  illiteracy 
and  ignorance  and  superstition. 

The  most  progressive 
movement  for  the  wom- 
en of  South  India  is 
the  Woman’s  Christian 
College  in  Madras. 

This  College  is  another 
of  the  strong  bonds  of 
internation  alism. 

Twelve  Boards  are  co- 
operating, six  in  Great 
Britain,  five  in  the 
United  States  and  one 
in  Canada. 

The  college  opened  in 
July,  1915,  with  40  stu- 
dents but  the  number 
has  increased  to  120. 

At  the  head  of  this 
College  we  have  Miss 
Eleanor  McDougall,  a 
former  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Univers- 
ity of  London.  She 
has  in  recognition  of 
her  unusual  ability  and 
her  commanding  posi- 
tion, been  appointed  to 
a position  on  the  Sen- 
ate of  Madras  Univers- 
ity which,  in  recogni- 
tion of  the  high-grade 
work  of  this  College, 
confers  degrees  on  its 
graduates. 


Dormitory  at  Madras 

To  Which  Groups  of  Collegiate  Alumnae  in  America 
Gave  Generously 


WOMAN’S  UNION  MEDICAL  COLLEGE,  PEKING,  CHINA 


In  China  there  is  an 
average  of  one  Doctor 
to  every  400,000  people. 
The  average  in  Ameri- 
ca is  one  to  every  712. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that 
99  per  cent,  of  all  the 
people  who  become  ill 
in  China  are  entirely 
without  competent 
medical  a 1 1 e n ti  on. 
China  probably  affords 
an  exhibition  of  the 
greatest  physical  need 
the  world  has  ever 
known.  The  perma- 
nent solution  of  this  is 
ONLY  to  be  found  in 
the  building  up  of  a 
well  trained  medical 
profession  among  the 
Chinese  themselves. 
Three  Foreign  Mission 
Boards  foresaw  this 
and  united  in  the  or- 
ganization of  this 
school  in  1907  to  help 
in  meeting  this  most 
urgent  medical  need. 
This  College  is  lo- 

Freshman  Class  in  Histology  at  No.  China  Medical  College  cated  in  Peking,  the 

capital.  The  women 

who  have  been  graduated  from  the  College  are  answering  in  a splendid  way  the  varied  de- 
mands upon  their  trained  service.  In  1919  there  were  55  students  coming  from  provinces  of 
China,  Manchuria  and  Korea.  Two  years  of  college  work  are  required  for  entrance  and  a 
year  of  intenship  in  a recognized  hospital  is  needed  before  a diploma  is  issued.  In  June, 
1918,  seventeen  were  graduated  representing  eight  provinces.  All  were  earnest  Christians. 


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UNION  MISSIONARY  MEDICAL  SCHOOL  FOR  WOMEN,  VELLORE 

Here  in  India,  millions  on  millions  of  women,  hardly  more  than  children  (more  than  all 
the  people  in  the  United  States),  never  saw  a doctor  or  a nurse.  Now  that  the  war  has 
flashed  and  dinned  into  our  imagination  the  awfulness  of  human  suffering  and  has  made  us 
think  and  see  and  feel,  possibly  we  shall  realize  what  is  happening  in  these  trenches  on  the 
battlefield  of  motherhood  throughout  India.  We  have  seen  the  Red  Cross  summon  millions  of 
hands  to  help,  secure  millions  of  dollars  and  thousands  of  trained  men  and  women  with  all 
the  most  modern  appliances,  anesthetics  and  miraculous  surgery  for  our  wounded  and  dying 
men.  All  this  was  not  too  much  in  the  name  of  humanity  and  duty.  All  this  and  more  13 
NOT  TOO  MUCH  in  the  name  of  the  Great  Physician  who  today  must  walk  the  plains  ef 
India  in  the  person  of  his  friends. 

The  course  in  this  college  includes  anatomy,  physiology,  chemistry,  histology,  materia 
medica,  medicine,  surgery,  pathology,  hygiene,  medical  jurisprudence,  midwifry,  lunacy 
and  opthalmology. 


Lilavati  Singh,  Former  Acting  President  Dr.  Ida  S.  Scudder,  Vellore,  India,  Presi- 

of  Isabella  Thoburn  College  dent  of  the  Union  Medical  School 


ISABELLA  THOBURN  COLLEGE,  LUCKNOW,  INDIA 

Isabella  Thoburn  College,  the  first  Christian  College  for  women  in  India,  started  as  a one- 
roomed  school  in  1870  and  celebrated  its  Jubilee  Anniversary,  April  20,  1920.  It  was  ad- 
vanced to  High  School  grade  in  1882,  and  admitted  to  College  standing  in  1886.  By  the 
co-operation  of  two  Boards,  it  was  made  a Union  College  in  1919  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
Allahabad  University  which  sets  the  examinations  and  confers  degrees  in  First  Arts,  First 
Science,  and  Bachelor  of  Arts.  The  principal  is  Miss  Florence  Nichols  and  the  faculty 
consists  of  American  Missionaries  with  pandits  and  munshis  for  Oriental  classics.  In  July, 
1919,  the  enrollment  was,  Normal  23,  High  School  200,  College  30.  In  academic  standing  the 
college  ranks  with  the  best  in  India. 


JOINT  COMMITTEE:  Rev.  Frank  Mason  North,  D.  D.,  Mrs.  W.  F.  McDowell,  Miss 
Elizabeth  R.  Bender,  Robert  E.  Speer,  Miss  Margaret  E.  Hodge,  Mrs.  Charles  K.  Roys,  Mrs. 
Henry  W.  Peabody,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Montgomery,  Rev.  James  L.  Barton,  D.  D.,  Miss  Kate 
Lamson,  Rev.  W.  I.  Chamberlain,  Ph.  D.,  Mrs.  DeWitt  Knox,  Mrs.  Anna  R.  Atwater,  Miss 
Mabel  K.  Howell,  Mrs.  P.  M.  Rossman,  Miss  Rose  Beatty,  B.  A.  Advisory  Members.  Mrs. 
Gertrude  S.  Martin,  Miss  Ada  Comstock,  Mrs.  Wm.  Bancroft  Hill,  Miss  Ellen  Pendleton, 
Mrs.  William  Boyd.  Treasurer:  Mr.  Russell  Carter,  Miss  Hilda  L.  Olson,  Asst.  Treas. 

COOPERATING  BOARDS:  Baptist,  North;  Christian,  Congregationalism  Canadian  Metho- 
dist, Canadian  Presbyterian,  Lutheran,  Methodist  Episcopal,  Presbyterian  in  U.  S.,  Re- 
formed Church  in  America,  Methodist  Episcopal,  South. 


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